(328 quotes found)
“All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“These small things -- nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness -- are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
Cesare Pavese
“Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by”
Andre Maurois
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature”
Adam Smith
“The good turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.”
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
“Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.”
John Comenius
